The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce`s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Jonas Jonasson`s The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared.
The word-of-mouth bestseller causing a sensation across Europe, Fredrik Backman`s heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.
`Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving` Daily Mail
`Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it` Spectator Books of the Year
At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can`t reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d`etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents` Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection...